Franz Bach, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and his brother Nikolaus settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25. A note on the 1767 census indicates that Margaretha later married the brother Nikolaus.
Following the destruction of Chasselois, the Bach family relocated to the colony of Louis.
In 1787, widow Appolonia Bach and her daughter moved from Louis to Ober-Monjou.
Jakob Bach from Chasselois and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Louis in Household No. Ls28.
The death of Jakob Bach in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Franz Bach came from the German village of Saarlouis in the German region of Lothringen (France).
- 1834 Louis Census (Household No. 18).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ls28, Mv1567.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 256.
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